Arcka@midwest.socialtoNews@lemmy.world•Source Who Revealed How Taxes Steal for the Rich Rewarded With Five Years in PrisonEnglish
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7 months agoOP makes a statement that all democrats and republicans act the same and are equal
Wrong. OP never wrote that - YOU made that statement as a strawman. You should try to be a more honest person.
Is not the same as
Refusing to see nuance in the difference between the sentiment of these two statements does a disservice to yourself and your cause (unless you’re on the side of the billionaires).
So here you go since you missed the distinction: they can both be (and are) corrupt, without being “the same”.
People like to point out all the ways they’re not the same and one team is better than the other. Fine. Those things can all be true, and politicians in both those parties are still corrupt.
It was only a couple presidents ago that Democrats had the House, Senate, and President. Even then they couldn’t get their own members to vote for anti-corruption legislation.